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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Video

The company could raise about USD 1.9 billion in total.

iQiyi is selling bonds and shares to boost growth amid tightening liquidity | KrASIA

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Retail

JD.com has been enlarging its offline presence to compete in the era of new retail, which merges online and offline shopping.

JD.com teams up with Better Life to expand new retail in Hunan | KrASIA

JD.com teams up with Better Life to expand new retail in Hunan

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Chinese tech firms JD.com, Meituan, and Didi have also been trying to persuade their users to ditch WeChat Pay and Alipay.

Pinduoduo unveils payment service Duoduo Pay for its 731 million users | KrASIA

Pinduoduo unveils payment service Duoduo Pay for its 731 million users

The group-buying sector is also increasingly facing headwinds from suppliers.

JD pours USD 700 million into Xingsheng as neighborhood group-buying draws attention from state | KrASIA

JD pours USD 700 million into Xingsheng as neighborhood group-buying draws attention from state

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Live Streaming

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Private Equity

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

The fresh investment would value ByteDance at USD 180 billion.

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR | KrASIA

ByteDance expects to raise USD 2 billion in new round led by Sequoia and KKR

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Electric Vehicles

Nio's shares surged 19-fold in the past twelve months.

Nio plans to sell new shares to fund research and sales | KrASIA

Nio plans to sell new shares to fund research and sales

Edtech

2020 has overall been a banner year for the educational sector in China.

Almost 20% of businesses in the booming education sector are in critical condition, says report | KrASIA

Almost 20% of businesses in the booming education sector are in critical condition, says report

Prop Tech

Ziroom now manages properties of nearly 500,000 owners in nine cities including Shenzhen and Shanghai, and rents to about 3 million tenants.